Wearing your computer on your sleeve

December 19, 2011

Over the last year, Apple and Google have secretly begun working on projects that will become wearable computers, based on the smartphone, which is becoming the hub for our information sharing and gathering, New York Times Bitsreports.

In Google’s secret Google X labs, researchers are working on peripherals that — when attached to your clothing or body — would communicate information back to an Android smartphone.

At Apple, one idea being discussed is a curved-glass iPod that would wrap around the wrist; people could communicate with the device using Siri, the company’s artificial intelligence software.

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Maybe I’m looking a bit further ahead. I’d prefer to see one audio-visual device that connects to all networks and displays all kinds of information, though I’m not sure that’s possible under capitalism. I’m not into looking at a tiny screen, w/o a magnifier, and typing on tiny keys with one hand or two thumbs. Mine would ideally have a low-tech “heads-up” headset that would almost look like sunglasses, with screens on the side of the head, viewed in semi-silvered magnifying mirrors, two screens for 3-D options. Anything I stick in my ear should have every hearing function possible. A flexible keyboard with conventional sized keys would strap around the knees or around the waist. Connections could be blended into clothing. With ever smaller electronics, the rest could go wherever. And again ideally, my system wouldn’t have a graphic user interface, except maybe for freehand drawing.